Jeffrey Feltman, UN’s political affairs chief, to hold talks with high-ranking regime officials during four-day visit
A high-ranking United Nations official is on his way to North Korea to help lower tensions over the secretive regime’s nuclear and ballistic missile testing programs.
Jeffrey Feltman, the world body’s undersecretary-general for political affairs, left for Pyongyang Tuesday after a stopover in Beijing the day before. U. N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that Feltman will discuss “issues of mutual interest and concern” with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and Vice Minister Pak Myong Guk during his visit, which ends on Friday.
Feltman’s visit comes less than a week after Pyongyang announced it had successfully test fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the U. S. mainland. The launch heightened tensions between the North and the United States, highlighted by months of insults between the regime and President Donald Trump.
